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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0804901139
ISBN-13: 9780804901130
Jun 1966
Publisher: Viking Pr
Airmont Classics Series
Language: English |
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Synopsis
Conrad's second novel (1896) is set at an isolated trading post in the town of Macassar, on an island in Indonesia, where a fairly lowly Dutch clerk named Peter Willems finds himself lost and bewildered in an alien world. As he tries to find a way to survive there, his own intrigues prove to be his undoing, and in the end he essentially loses his soul. As Conrad writes in his introduction to the novel, "The man who suggested Willems to me was not particularly interesting in himself. My interest was aroused by his dependent position, his strange, dubious status of a mistrusted, disliked, worn-out European living on the reluctant toleration of that Settlement hidden in the heart of the forest-land, up that sombre stream which our ship was the only white men's ship to visit."
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First Line: "When he stepped off the straight and narrow path of his peculiar honesty, it was with an inward assertion of unflinching resolve to fall back again into the monotonous but safe stride of virtue as soon as his little excursion into the wayside quagmires had produced the desired effect. It was going to be a short episode--a sentence in brackets, so to speak--in the flowing tale of his life: a thing of no moment, to be done unwillingly, yet neatly, and to be quickly forgotten."
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